The National Institute on Drug Abuse has added $11.6 million to
an earlier $21.1 million award to the Partnerships in Prevention Science
Institute at Iowa State to continue its Promoting
School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience project.

Iowa State receives $4.5 million commitment from Roy J. Carver
Charitable Trust for new chemistry building; additional funding pledged
for faculty research

Gentile, father explore how violent video games are exemplary
aggression teachers

ISU Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile and his
father, J. Ronald Gentile -- a distinguished teaching professor emeritus of
educational psychology at the University of Buffalo, State University of New
York -- collaborated on a study of nearly 2,500 youths that found that
violent video games are effective teachers of aggression.

Iowa State's new CyberInnovation Institute to strengthen research,
state economy

Iowa State University has created a CyberInnovation Institute
to advance the university's science and engineering research through
linkages with information technology.
The institute is designed to help Iowa State compete for larger and broader
research projects. And it's designed to help Iowa State do a better job
leveraging its research strengths to benefit the state's economic
development.

ISU researcher honored at White House ceremony

Playground soil tested for lead at ISU's Child Development Lab School;
no hazard found

When a September inspection outside Iowa State University's Child
Development Lab School found evidence of lead paint chips on the
northwest perimeter of the playground, experts with ISU's
Environmental Health and Safety Department immediately sent soil
samples to be tested. The test results, shared Nov. 1 with parents of
daycare children in the school, found no lead hazard in the soil,
according to Environmental Protection Agency standards.

Five Iowa State University faculty members are named fellows of AAAS

Five members of the Iowa State University faculty have been
awarded the distinction of being named fellows by the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. This award recognizes
scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or
its applications.

Iowa State agronomist awarded Pioneer Hi-Bred professorship

Michael Thompson, ISU agronomy, has been awarded the
Pioneer Hi-Bred Agronomy Professorship. The intent of the professorship
is to support research, teaching and extension at the ISU agronomy department.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to explore Second Life in Nov.
15 symposium

Iowa State's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is exploring
the new virtual world of Second Life in an upcoming symposium, "A Second
Look at Second Life," which will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, in
the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Iowa State establishes Bioeconomy Institute to advance biorenewable
research

Iowa State University is establishing a Bioeconomy Institute to
help the university and state maintain their leadership in biorenewable
fuels, chemicals and technologies.The initial work of the institute will focus on six program areas: corn
to biofuels; biorenewable chemicals; thermochemical technologies such as
gasification and fast pyrolysis; harvest, storage and transportation of
biomass; feedstock production; and biorenewables education.

New names in Gold Star Hall

ISU ROTC students present the colors Nov. 12 at a ceremony honoring five former ISU students who died in the Iraq or Vietnam wars. The students' names, newly engraved Gold Star Hall, later were unvailed in a private ceremony.